Society and the supernatural in Song China / Edward L. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Edward L. (Edward Lawrence), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Religious life and customs.

China.

China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establishment of Confucian orthodoxy, Edward Davis demonstrates the renewed vitality of the dynasty's Taoist, Buddhist, and local religious traditions. He charts the rise of hundreds of new temple-cults and the lineages of clerical exorcists and vernacular priests; the increasingly competitive interaction among all practitioners of therapeutic ritual; and the wide social range of their patrons and clients.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts

3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners

4. The Cult of the Black Killer

5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums

6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums

7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums

8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song

9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion

Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-349) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824864361

0824864360

9780585479729

0585479720

OCLC:

53481904